An Incremental Change

"[Despite the new case review policy,] the immigration courts are still likely to be overwhelmed by deportation cases. The pipeline is fed by programs like Secure Communities,
the discredited dragnet that makes every cop a potential immigration
agent, empowered to enforce federal immigration laws. The courts themselves remain an enormous problem. As the American Bar Association reported
last year, they have too few judges and too many who are mean and
arbitrary. They provide too little due process and scant explanation of
their decisions in cases where more than half of threatened deportees
represent themselves. Until far-reaching reform increases justice
throughout the system, being caught in it will remain for most people an
unpredictable, terrifying experience." - New York Times Editorial, Nov. 19, 2011.